Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous books including Living with Indifference, The Lives of Things, and The Time of Memory.

"…[a] wonderful book … Charles Scott's Telling Silence is perhaps in the end not at all about the ineffabile, the arrheton. It is not a 'spiritual' book in that sense. It does not hush, after all. Rather, it urges us to become aware of those silences that our words all too often precipitously fill and so obliterate. Silences of forest and sea, silences of inner and outer space, silences of 'fell time,' silences of affirmations that do not construct a system but create shards, inscribing fragments of thoughtful writing." — Research in Phenomenology"Charles Scott does not write the way other philosophers write. He does not think the way they think. Silence tells him much more than it does the rest of us. If readers allow their imaginations to be stretched, Scott will show them how many and vast are the secrets of silence." — David Farrell Krell, author of A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Intimations: Telling Silence 2. The Vastness of the Sensuous 3. Connie's Walk in the Forest 4. A Silent Gap's Power 5. Being True to Nothing 6. Haunting Silence 7. Dwelling with Silence 8. "That Silence" 9. Interpreting Silence? Deviations and Interruptions in Hermeneutics in the Lineages of Zeus's Messenger 10. Interpreting in Discontinuities 11. Silence, Really? 12. Sensibilities with Silences 13. Discovery in Darkness and Light 14. Sense of Silence 15. Sudden Sparks and Wonders of My Solitude: Silent Creation and Free Spirits 16. Breaches of Divisions 17. Silent Space 18. Touching Silence 19. Moments 20. A Story of Silent Unreason: Nomadic Freedom with Imagination's Dangerous Instability 21. Spring 22. The Fall of the Power of Fell Time: Abstractions Treated as Unimagined Realities 23. A Story about Two Lovers in Pervading Silence Silencing References Index

Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous books including Living with Indifference, The Lives of Things, and The Time of Memory.

"…[a] wonderful book … Charles Scott's Telling Silence is perhaps in the end not at all about the ineffabile, the arrheton. It is not a 'spiritual' book in that sense. It does not hush, after all. Rather, it urges us to become aware of those silences that our words all too often precipitously fill and so obliterate. Silences of forest and sea, silences of inner and outer space, silences of 'fell time,' silences of affirmations that do not construct a system but create shards, inscribing fragments of thoughtful writing." — Research in Phenomenology"Charles Scott does not write the way other philosophers write. He does not think the way they think. Silence tells him much more than it does the rest of us. If readers allow their imaginations to be stretched, Scott will show them how many and vast are the secrets of silence." — David Farrell Krell, author of A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Intimations: Telling Silence 2. The Vastness of the Sensuous 3. Connie's Walk in the Forest 4. A Silent Gap's Power 5. Being True to Nothing 6. Haunting Silence 7. Dwelling with Silence 8. "That Silence" 9. Interpreting Silence? Deviations and Interruptions in Hermeneutics in the Lineages of Zeus's Messenger 10. Interpreting in Discontinuities 11. Silence, Really? 12. Sensibilities with Silences 13. Discovery in Darkness and Light 14. Sense of Silence 15. Sudden Sparks and Wonders of My Solitude: Silent Creation and Free Spirits 16. Breaches of Divisions 17. Silent Space 18. Touching Silence 19. Moments 20. A Story of Silent Unreason: Nomadic Freedom with Imagination's Dangerous Instability 21. Spring 22. The Fall of the Power of Fell Time: Abstractions Treated as Unimagined Realities 23. A Story about Two Lovers in Pervading Silence Silencing References Index

Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous books including Living with Indifference, The Lives of Things, and The Time of Memory.

"…[a] wonderful book … Charles Scott's Telling Silence is perhaps in the end not at all about the ineffabile, the arrheton. It is not a 'spiritual' book in that sense. It does not hush, after all. Rather, it urges us to become aware of those silences that our words all too often precipitously fill and so obliterate. Silences of forest and sea, silences of inner and outer space, silences of 'fell time,' silences of affirmations that do not construct a system but create shards, inscribing fragments of thoughtful writing." — Research in Phenomenology"Charles Scott does not write the way other philosophers write. He does not think the way they think. Silence tells him much more than it does the rest of us. If readers allow their imaginations to be stretched, Scott will show them how many and vast are the secrets of silence." — David Farrell Krell, author of A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Intimations: Telling Silence 2. The Vastness of the Sensuous 3. Connie's Walk in the Forest 4. A Silent Gap's Power 5. Being True to Nothing 6. Haunting Silence 7. Dwelling with Silence 8. "That Silence" 9. Interpreting Silence? Deviations and Interruptions in Hermeneutics in the Lineages of Zeus's Messenger 10. Interpreting in Discontinuities 11. Silence, Really? 12. Sensibilities with Silences 13. Discovery in Darkness and Light 14. Sense of Silence 15. Sudden Sparks and Wonders of My Solitude: Silent Creation and Free Spirits 16. Breaches of Divisions 17. Silent Space 18. Touching Silence 19. Moments 20. A Story of Silent Unreason: Nomadic Freedom with Imagination's Dangerous Instability 21. Spring 22. The Fall of the Power of Fell Time: Abstractions Treated as Unimagined Realities 23. A Story about Two Lovers in Pervading Silence Silencing References Index